• Evin Roman, a 19-year-old native of Puerto Rico, tied with Flavien Prat for the Santa Anita spring-summer meet riding title, joining Gordon Glisson (1949) as the only apprentice jockeys to win titles at Santa Anita since the track opened in 1934. Both Roman and Prat won 41 races. It was Prat’s third Southern California riding title. Peter Miller won the training title in a breeze, saddling 36 winners to 25 apiece for Philip D’Amato and Richard Baltas. It was Miller’s eighth overall Southern California title.

• Santa Anita showed an 8 percent increase in on-track attendance this season, according to track officials — the fourth consecutive year the track has posted attendance gains. “We’re encouraged by our numbers and we remain committed to working with our horsemen to do even better and to provide our customers with the kind of world class racing they expect to see here at Santa Anita,” said Joe Morris, Senior Vice President of West Coast Operations for The Stronach Group.

• In a prime example of the rich getting richer, 2015 UAE Derby winner and 2016 Dubai World Cup runner-up Mubtaahij has been transferred to the Bob Baffert barn. The 5-year-old Irish-bred son of Dubawi turned in his first work for Baffert at Los Alamitos on Wednesday, traveling three furlongs in 36.60 seconds. Mubtaahij last raced in this year’s Dubai World Cup on March 25, finishing fourth. Ten of his 17 starts have come at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai. “(We don’t have) immediate plans,” Baffert told bloodhorse.com. “(He) just came in last month.”

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